Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Exports at fault for 33 pct of China greenhouse gas

The world is to blame for about 33 percent of China’s greenhouse gas emissions, reports New Scientist. That’s what it takes to create all those exports China is sending around the globe. The top offender: advanced electronics. About 22 percent of “export emissions” are created by manufacturing these devices.China’s export emissions add up to about 1.7 billion tones of CO2 each year. That’s six percent of all global emissions and the equal to the combined output of Germany, France and the UK. Wow.

In 1987, export emissions accounted for just 12 percent of China’s carbon footprint.

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I started pound360 to channel my obsession with vitamins, running and the five senses. Eventually, I got bored focusing on all that stuff, so I came back from a one month hiatus in May of 2007 (one year after launching Pound360) and broadened my mumblings here to include all science.